1. Any person or insurer who, after the receipt of a certified copy of the notice of lien pursuant to NRS 108.610, makes any payment to the injured person, the person’s heirs, personal representatives or the attorney for any of them, as compensation for the injury suffered, without paying the hospital the reasonable value of hospitalization rendered to the injured person and claimed in its notice of lien or so much thereof as can be satisfied out of the money due under any final judgment, settlement or compromise, after paying the attorney’s fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith and any prior liens, is, for a period of 180 days after the date of that payment, liable to the hospital for the amount or part thereof which the hospital was entitled to receive. The hospital has, within that period, a cause of action or other claim for relief against the person or insurer making the payment, which may be prosecuted and maintained in any county wherein the notice of lien was filed.

2. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, if the hospital is publicly owned or not for profit, the person or insurer shall make the payment to the hospital by issuing to the hospital a separate check or other negotiable instrument. If the provisions of NRS 353.1467 apply, the person or insurer shall make the payment to the hospital by way of any method of electronic transfer of money allowed by the hospital.

3. As used in this section, “electronic transfer of money” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 353.1467.

[7:421:1955] — (NRS A 1987, 1676; 2007, 3314)